I’ve been having some fun with Yahoo Live for some time now. We’ve all heard about the technical problems that have plagued the service since it’s beginning a couple of months back, but I’ve enjoyed watching anonymous people playing guitar or displaying their DJ skills for a couple of friends and casual spectators.

I’ve subscribed to Yahoo Live twitter user, and i get occasional announcements of stuff going on in Live. I was quite surprised to see that there was a town hall being held. An actual Town Hall, from a small city in Spain called Jun, with an actual mayor, talking to actual people concerned about their town needs.

I caught the event early on and was able to talk to mayor José Salas about this, and he was quite happy to explain to me that he’s been doing this sort of stuff for some years now. Jun is known for having an Internet friendly stance, being regarded by the European Community as the birth place of the active teledemocracy.

These are the things that make the endless hours of roaming through the web worthwhile. If you hurry up you can still catch the event live at http://live.yahoo.com/alcaldejun. You can also check the Mayor’s blog for the next event.

The biggest money mover on the web industry lately has been the live video niche, which it isn’t anymore. Some big players have joined the bandwagon, and have introduced live video. Justin.TV and Ustream got the ball rolling some time back, which was by that time a fringe section of the huge video market.

It’s somewhat weird that this whole market had been dormant for so long, while people watched Reality TV shows like there’s no tomorrow. There’s nothing new about the format, there’s nothing as real as watching some anonymous dude ranting about how much snowed last night. But people still preferred to watch pre-packaged, nicely produced reality TV.

Slowly, but surely things started to change and live streaming websites started popping all over like mushrooms. Then Seesmic, came along not without some controversy, and even Yahoo launched it dubious named streaming service called Live.

Youtube had been sitting this one out, ignoring the movement, ignoring all the rage about being able to diss someone live and "face to face". Until Youtube’s Steve Chen drops the hammer and announces that Youtube will add live streaming this year.